Memorable Manitobans: Frederick Hartington Bole (1880-1950)

Grain merchant.

Born in Ontario on 11 December 1880, son of David Wesley Bole and Isabella Lennox (1861-1931), he worked in his father’s Winnipeg drug company until the 1920s when he headed the Bole Grain Company and Electric Elevator and Grain Company. On 7 September 1904, he married Edith Mary Richards (1882-1950, eldest daughter of Albert Elswood Richards) at Winnipeg. They had two children: Elswood Frederick Bole and Edith Isobel Bole (1908-1971, wife of Leslie Carrington Radcliffe). He died at his Winnipeg home, 203 Kingston Row, on 16 July 1950 and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.

Sources:

Ontario birth registration, Ancestry.

Birth registration [Elswood Frederick Bole], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Marriage registration [Frederick Hartington Bole, Edith May Richards], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

Marriage registration [Edith Isabel Bole, Leslie Carrington Radcliffe], Manitoba Vital Statistics.

“Mrs. F. H. Bole dies at coast,” Winnipeg Free Press, 7 February 1950, page 25.

Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 18 July 1950, page 11.

Winnipeg Free Press necrology files. [University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, Winnipeg Elite Study, G. Friesen Fonds, Mss 154, Box 15, File 16]

Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.

We thank Michael Radcliffe for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 19 September 2023

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